Careers

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Our mission

We are FUN WITH BALLS and we make sports as fun as computer gaming. We use technology to bring sports to their future form and enable them to compete with other activities of today.

We focus on an innovative approach to activity, highly reliable tech made to last, and building a strong community of operators, federations, brands and players. We can only dream of what the future holds for humanity, but we can take the right steps today to ensure that sports stay relevant for our society.

We’re a dynamic start-up in a fast-paced society. That’s why we don’t expect comprehensive motivation letters and long application texts.

Pitch your personality in five sentences and show us why you want to be part of our mission, what attracts you to join tour team and what’s your contribution to our mission (well, and we need your CV).

With a successful team you can shape the sport of tomorrow with us. We offer creative freedom for ideas to grow professionally and personally with us. We work completely international, from New York to New Zealand. In addition, we have the coolest office in the middle of the English Garden in Munich including fitness area, terraces, fireplace, u.v.m.

As a computer scientist having 5+ years work experience. You are interested in managing our native environment by maintaining and extending our given architecture as well as contributing to our applications. For our system machines you will be taking care of application distribution, proper integration of the game applications as well as contributing to various detection applications.

You aim towards automated tests, structuring our current software in a modular way and take care of the communication with our centralized servers. You are highly driven to bring our technology to the next level. Therefore you can overlook complex systems and you are well aware of dependencies between different software parts.

You understand the importance of each bit and ensure the overall functionality of the system. You are able to reach beyond the usual borders of your working field in order to support the team for keeping important deadlines if necessary.

Your focus is on gaining improvements towards efficiency, scalability and the feature set of the system. You understand the different levels of importance and you are able to prioritize and shape the size of individual evolutionary steps.

You maintain an optimum balance between the number of steps and the time period between releases in order to have improvements productive as soon as possible and at the same time staying efficient.

Your skill set:

C ++

QT

Linux

git

network

English fluently

Nice to have:

Open CV / Computer Vision

hardware interfaces USB, COM, Ethernet

German speaking

What matters to you:

The will to build the tech for the sport of tomorrow

A positive mindset and willingness to learn

Team skills in a growing, international startup

YOU LOVE WHAT YOU DO

What we offer:

With a successful team you can shape the sport of tomorrow with us. We offer creative freedom for ideas to grow professionally and personally with us. We work completely international, from New York to New Zealand. In addition, we have the coolest office in the middle of the English Garden in Munich including fitness area, terraces, fireplace, u.v.m.

Do you want to take part on the new technological revolution of sports and be a key contact to convey the value we bring, close sales and skyrocket our revenue? We are looking for a Sales Manager that is ready to hit the ground running to deliver on our company’s diverse SALES efforts. Strategic thinking, a visionary approach, ability to deal with clients in an international setting and to thrive on the environment that is natural to a startup are fundamental aspects to succeed on this role.

Your skill set:

Experience on Sales and Business Development planning and execution

Ability to manage relationship with commercial partners, accounts and potential clients including the main players on the sports market

Capacity to respond to inbound inquiries and cold-calling

Management of customer database (CRM)

Effective team interaction with internal parties (marketing, tech and product development) for all sales deliverables

Strong self-confidence to guarantee meeting of outreach KPIs to maximise the number of leads, prospects and deals closed

Plus Points:

Willingness to “live” the brand and to act as a main spokesperson for its mission and values

Good understanding of the mentality of a startup

Excellent written and spoken English.

German skills are a plus

What matters to you:

The will to build the tech for the sport of tomorrow

A positive mindset and willingness to learn – Team skills in a growing, international startup

YOU LOVE WHAT YOU DO

What we offer: With a successful team you can shape the sport of tomorrow with us. We offer creative freedom for ideas to grow professionally and personally with us. We work in a completely international environment, from New York to New Zealand. In addition, we have the coolest office in the middle of the English Garden in Munich including fitness area, terraces, fireplace, u.v.m. If you think now you are exactly right for us, please contact us at apply@funwithballs.com

Do you want to take part on the new technological revolution of sports and be one key players to convey our mission into relevant design? We are looking for a Graphic designer that will be able to create unique designs and visual concepts that transmit a recognizable meaning for our brands and are able to inspire, inform and captivate prospects. A creative approach, the ability to communicate clearly and great time-management skills, besides the willingness to work in an international setting and to thrive in the environment that is natural to a startup are fundamental aspects to succeed in this role.

Your skill set:

Develop graphics for product illustrations, logos, and websites

Determine the message the design should portray

Create images that identify a product or convey a message

Incorporate changes recommended by art director into the final design

Review designs for errors before printing or publishing them – Review and structure the layout of websites and printed pages

Work with both text and images in close collaboration with content manager

Work together with marketing and sales departments in order to set best strategies to reach a particular audience for each brand/product

High knowledge of the Adobe Creative suite (also other programs are fine)Plus points:

Previous experience in advertising and promotions, public relations, and marketing

Good understanding of the mentality of a startup

Excellent written and spoken English.

German skills are a plus

What matters to you:

The will to build the brand imagery of our tech products for the sport of tomorrow

A positive mindset and willingness to learn

Team skills in a growing, international startup

YOU LOVE WHAT YOU DO

What we offer: With a successful team you can shape the sport of tomorrow with us. We offer creative freedom for ideas to grow professionally and personally with us. We work in a completely international environment, from New York to New Zealand. In addition, we have the coolest office in the middle of the English Garden in Munich including fitness area, terraces, fireplace, u.v.m. If you think now you are exactly right for us, please contact us at apply@funwithballs.com

Do you love to make games? Do you want to experience a new and unique platform? There’s a place for you! We are looking for a Game Artist (m/f/x) or a Working Student Game Artist (m/f/x) from disciplines like Media Design or Media Informatics. We, Fun With Balls GmbH, are revolutionizing sports with gamification and the latest technology to promote a more active lifestyle for players worldwide, here at the heart of Munich. You will be helping to create games for our unique platform controlled by balls. We offer creative freedom, impactful work, and steep learning curves. Live out your creativity and grow professionally and personally. P.S. Just so you know, we have the coolest office located in the middle of the English Garden, with fitness area, terraces, fireplace, and much much more!

Your skill set

2D-allrounder

familiar with frame-by-frame, spritesheet- or bone-animations

familiar with game development processes

you have worked with Unity or Godot

self-motivated and structured in your work

Responsibilities

create mockups to visualize the layout and flow of new games

design UIs, the UX, and the visual identity of our game portfolio

create backgrounds, characters, and visual effects

Responsibilities

The will to build the tech for the sport of tomorrow

A positive mindset and willingness to learn

Team skills in a growing, international startup

YOU LOVE WHAT YOU DO

What we offer:

you will be an active part of the entire design process

international startup environment with all its freedoms and responsibilities

Object-oriented, hardware-oriented programming should not be foreign to you

What matters to you:

The will to build the tech for the sport of tomorrow

A positive mindset and willingness to learn

Team skills in a growing, international startup

YOU LOVE WHAT YOU DO

What we offer:

With a successful team you can shape the sport of tomorrow with us. We offer creative freedom for ideas to grow professionally and personally with us. We work completely international, from New York to New Zealand. In addition, we have the coolest office in the middle of the English Garden in Munich including fitness area, terraces, fireplace, u.v.m.

To strengthen our Tech team we are looking for a React-Native Developer:

Your tasks:

You conceive, design and engineer mobile strategies to make the Funwithballs mobile app a success. You are responsible for the Funwithballs mobile app development(both IOS and Android), architecture and API integration. You will collaborate with other developers with new ideas and challenge each other in improving the overall user experience. You work closely with QA to identify/troubleshoot application code-related issues.

Your skill set

2+ years Experience with React-Native/React

Passion producing well structured, readable and testable code

Working in an agile and multicultural team

Hands on experience with Redux and TypeScript

An attitude of accountability and knowledge-sharing – you enjoy reviewing others’ code and sharing your knowledge.

Excellent communication skills in English – you can come to an agreement with engineers, product owners, and other stakeholders.

Take responsibility of running application on both android and IOS platforms.

Ability to use git

Experience:

Software Development: 2 years (Preferred)

Informatik: 2 years (Preferred)

Java: 2 years (Preferred)

React-Native/React: 2 years (Preferred)

Front End Development: 2 years (Preferred)

What matters to you:

The will to build the tech for the sport of tomorrow

A positive mindset and willingness to learn

Team skills in a growing, international startup

YOU LOVE WHAT YOU DO

What we offer:

With a successful team you can shape the sport of tomorrow with us. We offer creative freedom for ideas to grow professionally and personally with us. We work completely international, from New York to New Zealand. In addition, we have the coolest office in the middle of the English Garden in Munich including fitness area, terraces, fireplace, u.v.m.

Please note: specify in the subject of your email for which position you’re applying to. Fun With Balls also welcomes your spontaneous application at apply@funwithballs.com!

Want to join our TEAM?

Located in beautiful Munich, Germany, Fun With Balls GmbH is fusing sports with technology to create the best and most enjoyable fitness products out there. Our first project is interactiveSQUASH, a digital upgrade for any existing squash court that transforms the front wall into a giant liveable projection. With over 25 games and training modules, the system is giving some much needed hype to the traditional sport. For more info, visit interactivesquash.com!

We just launched our second product, MulitBallx. It’s an innovative technology that transforms any wall in an interactive playground, and could involve any kind of sport with a ball, in particular Tennis, Soccer, Baseball etc.. It combines fitness, entertainment and education features to transform Schools, Hotels, Leisure Centers, Sport Clubs, Malls and other environments in places for a healthy and active life-style. For more info, visit multi-ball.com!

About Us

At Fun With Balls GmbH we focus on making people move in real, fun sports experience! Our Munich-based Startup specialises in Sports-Tech and its mission it to make society more active and to increase participation in sports in the most fun and engaging way, in particular for the younger generation.